Introduction to Hegel – Freedom, Truth and History 2e

Acknowledgements to the Second Edition.
<p>Acknowledgements to the First Edition.</p>
<p>List of Abbreviations.</p>
<p>Chronology.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 History and Truth.</p>
<p>The Historicity of Thought and Civilization.</p>
<p>Comparing Civilizations.</p>
<p>Self–consciousness and Historical Progress.</p>
<p>History, Truth and Relativism.</p>
<p>History and the Absolute.</p>
<p>2 Thinking Without Presuppositions.</p>
<p>Thought and Freedom.</p>
<p>From Indeterminate to Determinate Thought.</p>
<p>The Method of Dialectical Thinking.</p>
<p>Logic and Ontology.</p>
<p>Logic, Science and History.</p>
<p>3 Phenomenology and Natural Consciousness.</p>
<p>Logic and Phenomenology.</p>
<p>The Method of Phenomenology.</p>
<p>Logic in Phenomenology.</p>
<p>The Role of the We .</p>
<p>Sense–certainty.</p>
<p>From Certainty to Truth.</p>
<p>Absolute Knowing: The Standpoint of Philosophy.</p>
<p>4 The Path to Absolute Knowing.</p>
<p>Self–consciousness and the Master/Slave Relation.</p>
<p>Stoicism.</p>
<p>The Unhappy Consciousness and Reason.</p>
<p>Spirit and Absolute Freedom.</p>
<p>Moral Spirit.</p>
<p>Conscience.</p>
<p>The Beautiful Soul, Evil and Forgiveness.</p>
<p>Religion.</p>
<p>Absolute Knowing.</p>
<p>Phenomenology and Philosophy.</p>
<p>5 Reason in Nature.</p>
<p>From Logic to Nature.</p>
<p>Nature: The Idea as the Negative of Itself .</p>
<p>Reason and Nature s System of Stages .</p>
<p>Contingency and the Limits of Philosophy.</p>
<p>Philosophy and Natural Science.</p>
<p>6 Space, Gravity and the Freeing of Matter.</p>
<p>Space and its Dimensions.</p>
<p>Time.</p>
<p>Place and Motion.</p>
<p>Matter and its Gravity.</p>
<p>Mass, Inertia and Weight.</p>
<p>Falling Bodies and Galileo s Law.</p>
<p>The Solar System.</p>
<p>Kepler s Laws of Planetary Motion.</p>
<p>Hegel and Newton.</p>
<p>Hegel and Relativity.</p>
<p>7 Life and Embodied Spirit.</p>
<p>The Ideal Structure of Life.</p>
<p>Chemistry and Life.</p>
<p>Plants and Animals.</p>
<p>Sensation in Animals.</p>
<p>Life, Death and Spirit.</p>
<p>Evolution.</p>
<p>Embodied Spirit.</p>
<p>Intelligence and its Signs.</p>
<p>8 Freedom, Rights and Civility.</p>
<p>From Hegel to Hitler?.</p>
<p>The Limits of Choice.</p>
<p>Rights, Property and Slavery.</p>
<p>The Problem with Being Moral.</p>
<p>Freedom at Home in the World.</p>
<p>Civil Society and Poverty.</p>
<p>Freedom and the State.</p>
<p>9 Art and Human Wholeness.</p>
<p>Art, Religion and Philosophy.</p>
<p>The Function of Art.</p>
<p>Beauty and Ideal Character.</p>
<p>The Historicity of Art.</p>
<p>Symbolic and Classical Art.</p>
<p>Christianity, Aesthetic Autonomy and the Death of Art.</p>
<p>10 Philosophy and Christian Faith.</p>
<p>Philosophy, Reason and Geist.</p>
<p>Philosophy and Religious Representation.</p>
<p>God as Reason and Love.</p>
<p>Faith and Worship.</p>
<p>Death, Freedom and New Life.</p>
<p>Faith, Interpretation and Philosophy.</p>
<p>Philosophy and Faith in History.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Bibliographical Essay.</p>
<p>Index</p>